Search Results
“Circuit breaker”… bring on the vaccine!
Precinct Covid-19 Update Foster and Toora Medical Centres THE virus continues to throw out challenges. As was predicted, there are many chapters to this COVID-19 pandemic story, although hardly a novel […]
Paul Greenhalgh appointed Chief Executive Officer at South Gippsland Hospital
SOUTH Gippsland Hospital’s interim Chief Executive Officer Paul Greenhalgh has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer. Board Chair Sue Pilkington said “Paul took on the interim role in […]
COVID-19 IS BACK!
Foster and Toora Medical Centres THIS was certainly not the way we wished to welcome in the New Year! Everything had been going so well and we were looking forward […]
Opening up of Victoria
Foster and Toora Medical Centres IT is with a heady mixture of relief and joy that we celebrate the continuing reopening up of Victoria as a result of an impressive […]
Medical Precinct Coronavirus update
Foster and Toora Medical Centres THE numbers are coming down and the restrictions are finally being relaxed. It has been a long hard lockdown which we know our city friends […]
Glad-hearted queue outside Foster’s reopened Little Opp Shop
KEEN browsers and prospective customers had formed a glad-hearted queue even before the front door of Foster’s Little Opp Shop at the Pearl Park end of Main Street reopened for […]
Precinct Coronavirus Update
Foster and Toora Medical Centres OPTIMISM. Quiet optimism is creeping back as the numbers decline. Relief. And relief that the harsh measures imposed seem at this stage to be working. Who […]
Ensure PCAC’s future in your will
PROM Country Aged Care has just launched its new Bequest Program and is asking the people of the Corner Inlet district to ensure PCAC’s future by remembering the community-based facility […]
EXTENDED LOCKDOWN MEASURES
AS Father’s Days go, this one wasn’t one filled with good news on the COVID front. It wasn’t a great surprise that the government extended lockdown measures, as the numbers […]
Present strategy working
Foster and Toora Medical Centres A FRIEND said that life is a little in grey monochrome at present. It certainly is. The colour and vibrancy of normal life is harder to find […]
Stage 3 Lockdown
Foster and Toora Medical Centres Who would have predicted last year that we would all be wearing facemasks and becoming immune to pictures of empty Melbourne city streets under an […]
Pandemic concerns
Foster and Toora Medical Centres ONCE again the COVID landscape has changed dramatically since our last article. The feeling that we in Australia had somehow avoided the pandemic now seems […]
COVID-19 landscape changed
Foster and Toora Medical Centres THE COVID landscape has changed quite a lot since last article. Again. And predictably not for the last time. For this is a book with […]
COVID-19 update
Foster and Toora Medical Centres HOW things can change in the few weeks since our last article. We were congratulating ourselves on such a great response to the COVID-19 threat […]
COVID-19 update
Foster and Toora Medical Centres FIRST off, huge congratulations to Dr Laurie Warfe for his OAM. Laurie has been working with us for the last year or so after moving […]
COVID-19 Update
Foster and Toora Medical Centres ALONG with everyone else, we are pleased that our (Australia/Victoria/South Gippsland) numbers of COVID-19 are so low and that life is returning to a new […]
COVID-19 UPDATE
Foster and Toora Medical Centres WE are excited to announce finally that the Respiratory Clinic is complete and open for business. After weeks of preparation and modification of the ‘rail […]
COVID-19 update
Foster and Toora Medical Centres Arguably the biggest news this week was the unexpected arrival of a large order of flu injections. This lead to a very successful third drive-through […]
The quiet gentle optimism continues
Foster and Toora Medical Centres IT has been another week of consolidation of some of the changes we have previously talked about. The Respiratory Clinic-end is almost finished and we should […]
Cautious optimism but we need to continue
Precinct Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update CAUTIOUS optimism over the past week is creeping in as the figures show a slowing of the numbers of COVID-19 in Victoria and Australia. This has been […]
We are all in this together
STRAIGHT from the DHHS website, the message is… Stay home. Protect the health system. Save lives. There are only four reasons to leave home: Shopping for what you need – food […]
ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL
(with apologies to D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers) All for one… THE COVID-19 pandemic has banded us together for one common goal…to prevent the spread of the virus in our community, to […]
COVID-19 Update
WE are living in difficult and challenging times. The Foster and Toora Medical Centres, South Gippsland Hospital and Prom Country Aged Care (the Precinct) are united in their belief that now is […]
Girls of Our Town acclaims women and community
The Bendigo Bank Girls of Our Town acclaims both the women and the community of the Corner Inlet district at two special events to be held in Foster as part […]
International Women’s Day
Who is this? READERS who know the answer also know how much she has worked for our community in Corner Inlet. This beautiful WAAF will be one of a Gallery […]
Banksia Lodge leased to South Gippsland Hospital
Parts of Banksia Lodge will be used to house future additional community health services, alongside the existing staff, student and visiting family accommodation and support group uses, following planned building […]
Four more beds for PCAC
FOSTER’S Prom Country Aged Care will receive four additional aged care places under the 2018/19 Aged Care Approvals Round. Member for McMillan, Russell Broadbent welcomed the additional places for Prom […]
Drafting generosity
THE Yanakie Campdraft Committee handed out $8000 in cheques this week to local community groups. Beneficiaries included Prom Country Aged Care, Foster and Fish Creek primary schools, Prom Coast Centre […]
PCAC names new CEO
JUSTIN Wightman has been named as the new CEO of Prom Country Aged Care in Foster. Mr Wightman – currently the Executive Manager of Corporate Services at the Australian Childhood […]
Ribbon cut at PCAC
MEMBER for McMillan Russell Broadbent cut the ribbon at the official opening of Prom Country Aged Care’s extension last Friday (November 23). The extra seven rooms, spacious outdoor space and […]
More people needed: CEO
PROM Country Aged Care CEO Rhett McLennan is urging more people to put their hand up for a spot on the not-for-profit’s board. “We, as an organisation, are always looking […]
Finishing touches on PCAC extension
LAST week saw Prom Country Aged Care put the finishing touches to its extension, which has added an extra seven rooms to the facility. Six are two-bedroom sized, while the […]
Call to arms
Brigade asks for more volunteers FOSTER Fire Brigade captain David Jones is relieved a recent call out to fight a blaze at South Gippsland Hospital proved to be a false […]
Yanakie Camp Draft donates $8,500 to community
PRESIDENT of the Yanakie Camp Draft, Marni Hamilton, presented cheques to Prom Coast Centre for Children, the Foster Historical Society, Prom Country Aged Care, the Youth Assist Clinic and Fish […]
Op Shops running like well-oiled machines
WITH 3 locations and around 45 remarkable volunteers it’s little wonder, since its beginnings last December, close to $150,000 worth of goods will be sold by Christmas. “The thing I […]
IGA GIVING BACK
JUST under $10,000 was given out to nine community groups on Thursday June 29. It is all part of a program that allows customers, using a MyIGA Card, to accumulate […]
Great support for Pop Up and Op Shops
THE local community is still doing a wonderful job supporting Foster’s Pop Up Op Shop and Main Street Op Shop said Sandy Bucello last week. “We are overwhelmed at the […]
New estate to provide economic boost to Foster
CONSTRUCTION of a major new housing development in Foster, to be known as ‘Parkside Estate’, is due to commence within weeks, providing a huge economic boost to Foster and the […]
Pop-Up Op Shop a stand-out success
THE Pop-Up Op Shop established in Foster as an extension of the Prom Community Op Shop is proving to be a huge success. The shop opened in the former Dower’s […]
Big new fundraising opportunity thanks to community partnership
IN AN exciting new venture expected to reap significant benefits for the Corner Inlet community, Prom Country Aged Care is joining forces with the Linton Court Committee to expand the […]
The Foster Community Online website is a not-for-profit initiative of the Foster Chamber of Commerce, supported by the Foster Community Association.
Web hosting & voluntary maintenance by Loud Mountain
Foster.vic.au feed